Chapter 197

After Qian Shougang died, Zhao Xing rushed back to Long Xiao's location.

At this time, Long Xiao had already solved the remaining Black Dragon Guards on the warship.

"How is it?" Long Xiao asked.

"Dead."

Long Xiao said: "That's good, should we retreat?"

Zhao Xing said: "Even if we retreat, we must take this warship back. We are now pursuing and killing the enemy army. It's unreasonable not to take the spoils of war."

Long Xiao hesitated: "Didn't you say reinforcements are coming soon? My 500 people can't fight tens of thousands."

The Black Dragon Guards are not ordinary goods. The Prince of Zhao's private army is also a strong army.

They also spent a lot of effort to solve Qian Shougang. It can be said that Long Xiao and Zhao Xing did their best.

And although Qian Shougang was Upper Sixth-Rank, he was only a commander of a thousand people in the Black Dragon Army. There were many sixth-ranks stronger than Qian Shougang.

"They have already arrived." Zhao Xing pointed in a certain direction.

I saw five Black Dragon Warships appearing on the eastern horizon, one of which quickly landed at the location where Qian Shougang died.

Two warships divided into many flying boats, surrounding Zhao Xing, Long Xiao's 500 people, and the warship.

The other two were suddenly on alert toward the north.

"What should we do now?" Long Xiao's expression was grave.

"Don't panic." Zhao Xing said, "Our people have also arrived. Fly the flag above and say that the Divine Might Army is annihilating the enemy army."

After killing a sixth-rank and over a thousand Black Dragon Guards, Long Xiao felt a bit empty after his brain heat, but Zhao Xing was very calm.

Why did he have to kill them all, not just punish Qian Shougang?

One is because if Qian Shougang is alive, even if he wins now, but Qian Shougang is a strong sixth-rank, it will be difficult to avoid revenge in the future. Whether it is open revenge or secret sabotage, the trouble will be endless.

Zhao Xing's approach is to cut off the source of this trouble directly. It is best to solve it once and for all.

Second is, the Divine Might Army rose suddenly, plus his own planting of Earth Fire Lotuses, which magnified the speed of the Divine Might Army's rise.

As the saying goes, people are popular and have many troubles.

If Qian Shougang had succeeded in "forced requisition" today, nothing would have happened.

Tomorrow, there would be "Li Shougang," "Wang Shougang"... endless, anyone could come to bully them.

Then Zhao Xing shouldn't think about making merits, because you just cultivated the Earth Fire Lotus and gained military merits, and the next moment it was forcibly requisitioned, the military merits were directly deducted, making wedding clothes for others. What's the point of doing anything?

Note, this is not a normal requisition by Qian Shougang, it is a forced requisition that does not comply with the process, and it is no different from robbery.

Normal processes require a "Divine Contract" witnessed by the gods, how much to borrow, when to return, all must be clear.

Qian Shougang only had a verbal order. He didn't even invite the gods, and the temple in City No. 98 wasn't built, just wanting to default on the debt later and not intending to return it.

In this way, City No. 98 loses military merits, and Qian Shougang can generate many military merits with this batch of Earth Fire Lotuses.

Weak commanders can't argue with Qian Shougang from a strong army.

In barbarian warfare, there are many situations where supervision is not in place, and even military merits have to be counted by multiple parties, requiring witnesses, physical evidence, and finally comprehensive consideration by people above, relying on the Creation Compass to calculate.

Things like two armies fighting for merits and snatching battle results will never be less during the great war.

Killing Qian Shougang is also to hit one punch to avoid a hundred punches.

Zhao Xing understands this truth, and Liao Rulong understands it too.

So he immediately led the army to arrive quickly.

Because the clouds in the sky were controlled by Zhao Xing, the Black Dragon Guard reinforcements and Liao Rulong's unit arrived almost at the same time.

"My Black Dragon Army commander Qian Shougang is dead. This area is about to be blocked. Please cooperate with the investigation of the Divine Might Army." On a Black Dragon Warship, commander Zheng Liu ordered the warship team in front.

On the warship, Chen Shijie raised an eyebrow when he heard this news.

Zhao Xing... has already killed a commander of the Black Dragon Army?

Liao Rulong also learned the ins and outs on the way, analyzed by Pu Zhong.

At this time, his heart also skipped a beat. This brother is too fast.

Thinking is thinking, Liao Rulong still made a quick reaction.

"The Divine Might Army is pursuing the alien enemy army. This is our war zone. Please leave immediately!"

His attitude was also very tough, insisting that the Divine Might Army was pursuing and killing the alien enemy army.

Now these processes have to be checked afterward. Liao Rulong is also an old hand in the army, and with Pu Zhong and Chen Shijie by his side, he naturally knows how to do it.

The flag orders of the two sides were passed back and forth.

Liao Rulong reiterated three times, and the warship began to advance.

Seeing that Liao Rulong had many people, the first batch of five Black Dragon Warships didn't dare to act rashly and withdrew from the area above Zhao Xing's head.

Because they also didn't figure out why Qian Shougang died here, and the Divine Might Army used the guise of killing the enemy.

The commander of the first batch of five warships was named "Zheng Liu." He was a relatively upright person and didn't know about Qian Shougang's arrival at all.

Seeing that the situation was weird, he had to give up checking Qian Shougang's ship, only collected Qian Shougang's body, called his superior on his flagship, and confronted the Divine Might Army.

Whoosh~ A fifth-rank top-grade Dragon Bone Tower Ship landed on the hillside.

Qian Shougang's Black Dragon Warship was only fifth-rank mid-grade. Compared with Liao Rulong, who had changed to bird guns, his warship was like an old hen standing next to an elephant.

"Zhao Xing, Long Xiao." Liao Rulong, Chen Shijie, Yu Ziqi, and Pu Zhong flew down from the ship. Wen Shaoyang and Jiang Ming sat in Fire Dragon Pass.

Liao Rulong bought five fifth-rank top-grade Dragon Bone Warships and now sent three directly, which can be said to be very important.

"Are you two okay?" Liao Rulong asked. He looked at the broken arms and limbs all over the ground and couldn't help but be shocked.

Mother, how many did you cut?

"It's okay, thank you for your concern, Commandant." Zhao Xing said. "They are all corpses of the enemy army."

Liao Rulong asked in a deep voice: "Are there any living mouths?"

Zhao Xing glanced at Liao Rulong. No wonder the Divine Might Army could rise, it was the rhythm of all ruthless people.

Old Liao's second sentence was asking if there were any living mouths.

If there are still living mouths, hurry up and deal with them.

"No, the enemy army has been completely annihilated." Zhao Xing said. "The treasures of the supply city that were robbed are all on this ship."

"Turn on the records on the Dragon Bone Warship, and invite the statue in the Marching Hall to sit in town." Pu Zhong said, "Keep the battlefield as it is."

Pu Zhong began to prepare for the aftermath. As a military advisor, he knew very well that the death of a sixth-rank martial general was not a small matter.

Now they just want to try their best to operate this matter in a reasonable direction.

A quarter of an hour later.

The Black Dragon Army shouted at Liao Rulong again.

The attitude also became tough.

Because the one shouting was no longer Zheng Liu, but his superior, the Upper Sixth-Rank Yangwei Commandant "Xie Kuiguang."

"The Divine Might Army has great courage, actually daring to intercept and kill my army's sixth-rank martial general?"

"Law enforcement team, bring the criminals and evidence back for trial!"

Xie Kuiguang's voice spread throughout the sky, and the warship aimed at the location of Zhao Xing and Long Xiao.

"Let's see who dares!" Liao Rulong flew into the sky, and thousands of people pulled out their war knives at the same time, blocking the small team sent by Xie Kuiguang murderously.

"Liao Rulong!" Xie Kuiguang shouted. He had already known Liao Rulong's name from Zheng Liu, and even Zhao Xing and Long Xiao's names were clear. "Do you want to shield the criminals?"

"Bastard, what are you? Dare to convict my Divine Might Army?" Liao Rulong's temper was even more explosive than his.

"This place has become a temporary war zone of the Divine Might Army, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops on the road behind. Try moving me!"

"Intercepting and killing a sixth-rank martial general, does your Divine Might Army want to rebel?!" Xie Kuiguang roared.

"Attacking the friendly war zone, do you want to betray the country!" Liao Rulong fought back tit-for-tat.

Swords were drawn.

The warship machine crossbows and cannons on both sides were also loaded, and groups of blood-qi battle formations condensed in the sky.

It must be said that Liao Rulong's unit of the Divine Might Army, after fighting the Wolf God Tribe and taking Fire Dragon Pass, its momentum was no longer inferior to the Black Dragon Army.

Xie Kuiguang really didn't dare to do anything for a while.

Liao Rulong was the same.

Both sides were evenly matched and were just talking big.

Once they really fought, neither side could bear the consequences.

But Xie Kuiguang couldn't let Liao Rulong and the others leave.

Because Qian Shougang and a thousand Black Dragon Guards died under his nose, how could he easily let people go?

"Ang~"

A dragon chant came from afar, but it was the arrival of Xia Jing and Li Que's troops.

Seeing that Liao Rulong really had reinforcements behind him, Xie Kuiguang felt tricky.

Moreover, why did the Black Armor Army and Town Sea Army also come?

Xie Kuiguang knew that Qian Shougang bullied the Divine Might Army, but he really didn't expect why it would attract such a big battle.

"The wings of the Divine Might Army are really hard..." Xie Kuiguang knew that he probably couldn't take down Zhao Xing and Long Xiao's group.

Nor could he take away Qian Shougang's warship.

If he could take the lead and take away Qian Shougang's warship, Zhao Xing, and Long Xiao's Brave Battalion, then it would be favorable for his Black Dragon Army.

Now, it's unclear.

"Xie Kuiguang." Xia Jing took a flying boat and came between the two armies, "What's going on? Why do you want to attack friendly forces?"

"Your Highness." Facing Xia Jing, Xie Kuiguang's tone softened. He could not put Liao Rulong and the Yang An behind him in his eyes, but Xia Jing's father, Xia Hou, had to be treated as a guest of honor by the Prince of Zhao.

Because Xia Hou was known as the strongest fourth-rank Yuanpo martial artist and had beheaded a third-rank Yuanhun demon Daoist.

"My army has a sixth-rank martial general and a thousand Black Dragon Guards who died here, suspected to have been killed by the Divine Might Army." Xie Kuiguang said, "Must take people back for trial..."

"You don't look like you're going to trial." Xia Jing interrupted: "If the Divine Might Army had fewer people, would you have done it?"

Xie Kuiguang didn't speak. He did think so.

"Xie Kuiguang, you are Upper Sixth-Rank, and Commandant Liao is also Upper Sixth-Rank. There is no difference in status. You have no right to order commanders of other armies." Xia Jing said lightly, "As for what happened, please ask the Military Realm Inspector to intervene."

Xie Kuiguang's face was gloomy, but he also knew he couldn't handle this, so he could only report it. Liao Rulong also reported to Jia Pu and Yang An.

The matter was blown up, but the highest in the battlefield was sixth-rank, so the matter of arguing could only be handed over to those above.

Xier Commandery, Divine Might Army Main Commander's Mansion.

"What, he beheaded a sixth-rank of the Black Dragon Army?" Jia Pu stood up with a "swoosh," "What exactly is going on?"

Pu Zhong and Liao Rulong stood in the Marching Hall. At this time, their phantoms also appeared in the Divine Might Army's Main Commander's Mansion, reporting the matter to Jia Pu one by one.

The excuse was still the same: City No. 98 encountered an enemy attack, the city defender Wang Ji was seriously injured, several deputy commanders were injured, and precious military supplies, Earth Fire Lotuses, were robbed.

Zhao Xing and Long Xiao led the Brave Cavalry Battalion to rescue, caught up with the alien enemy army disguised as the Black Dragon Army, and killed the enemy army completely.

Unexpectedly, these were real Black Dragon Guards.

Liao Rulong said firmly: "General, this can't be blamed on Zhao Xing and Long Xiao! If it were the Great Zhou's army, why would they attack City No. 98 and rob the fifth-rank Earth Fire Lotuses we worked so hard to get? Who could have thought of this!"

Jia Pu: "..."

Looking at Liao Rulong's clumsy acting, Jia Pu couldn't help but be speechless.

You don't know, who believes it?

But saying it is one thing, objective facts are another.

Jia Pu asked about the process in detail and found that Zhao Xing's rescue and killing were completely based on this set of objective facts.

This provided favorable evidence for the Military Realm trial.

Well done.

Jia Pu glanced at the detailed reports of the two and sighed in admiration in his heart.

It's hard to imagine that this was operated by Zhao Xing, who had been trained and enlisted for less than two years.

"I understand." Jia Pu said, "You stay where you are, don't make any moves, restrain your subordinates, and don't have any more conflicts."

"Yes." Liao Rulong nodded, and the phantom dissipated.

The person was killed on September 27th. On that day, a total of 120,000 troops from the Divine Might Army and Black Dragon Army were confronting each other near Xixian Territory.

The confrontation between the two armies naturally attracted no small amount of attention.

The main commander of the Fire Demon Clan in Xixian Territory was scared out of his wits. He thought the two armies were acting, but actually wanted to fight him.

He immediately contracted his forces, strictly guarded, and shrank back without coming out.

The Military Realm naturally discovered this abnormal situation very quickly.

But it wasn't until October 1st that people from the Judicial Yin God Department and the Inspection Department of the Military Realm intervened.

Xixian Territory, on an ordinary hillside.

Zhao Xing was waiting quietly.

At this time, a gloomy wind blew, and the sky suddenly darkened.

"Whoo~"

The sky howled, and a hundred-meter-high phantom appeared between heaven and earth.

It looked fierce, holding a curved knife and carrying many command flags on its back.

"Third-rank Judicial Yin God, Deng Gang." Zhao Xing looked at this Yin God and couldn't help but stand up.

Beside him, there were six smaller figures.

Among them, Zhao Xing knew three.

One is the Secretary of the Earthly Benefit Academy, Fan Zhaoli, who is also a fifth-rank agricultural official in Yangcheng of the Military Realm.

Two is Liu Tianning, who is a member of the "Inspection Department."

Three is Tantai Ming, who belongs to the fourth-rank military agricultural official of the Nine Heavens Response Mansion. Now the Xixian Territory war zone belongs to his jurisdiction.

All three are qualified to participate in this investigation, and it seems that only Fan Zhaoli and Zhao Xing have some connection.

In fact, they are all the result of the game.

When Fan Zhaoli, Liu Tianning, and Tantai Ming looked at Zhao Xing, their eyes were relatively gentle.

The other two looked at Zhao Xing with scrutiny.

Obviously, they are forces of the Prince of Zhao faction.

Zhao Xing looked at them. These two are fifth-rank martial generals, and the remaining one is a fourth-rank priest.

"Greetings, my lords." Zhao Xing cupped his hands.

"Nine-Section Battalion Commander Zhao Xing, we are now investigating the matter of 'intercepting and killing Qian Shougang'." A fifth-rank martial general said coldly. "Need to ask you a few questions, you must explain truthfully."

Tantai Ming said: "The matter has not been finalized, how can the word 'intercept and kill' be used? Let the Yin God Deng Gang summon the soul first, Shen, you have worked hard."

Fourth-rank priest Shen Yiheng nodded: "It should be so."

"Yin God summoning souls, its momentum is difficult to bear." Fan Zhaoli waved his hand, and a shadow projected on the ground, suddenly growing a lush tree with high spirits, "Tan, please let Zhao Xing wait here."

"Hmm." Tantai Ming nodded.

Zhao Xing cupped his hands and stood under Fan Zhaoli's big tree.

True · Back against a big tree to enjoy the cool.

After Zhao Xing stood beside Fan Zhaoli, the cold feeling disappeared, replaced by a cool feeling.

"Soul, return~"

Yin God Deng Gang held a soul lamp, dancing, and a unique tone came from his mouth, echoing between heaven and earth.

He shouted three times, but there was no movement.

Yin God Deng Gang looked at priest Shen Yiheng: "Cannot summon the soul."

"Why is this so?" The fifth-rank martial general next to him asked. "Where did Qian Shougang's soul go?"

"After a person dies, they become a ghost, and after a ghost dies, they become a ??."

"I can feel that the souls of Qian Shougang and the Black Dragon Guards have all turned into ?? and cannot be summoned."

Shen Yiheng immediately looked at Zhao Xing: "He killed people, and even crushed their souls? You are not killing by mistake at all, but knowing Qian Shougang's identity and killing him!"

Tantai Ming looked at Zhao Xing: "Shen's question, how do you explain it?"

Zhao Xing was unhurried, and a breeze appeared in his palm: "My lord, I know the high-level technique [Gloomy Wind Sha]."

"My spell attack is like this. Facing the alien barbarian race, does Shen still require me to show mercy?"

Gloomy Wind Sha is a spell aimed at the soul.

"Why didn't you confirm his identity?" A fifth-rank martial general shouted in a low voice.

Zhao Xing replied: "The situation was critical, and it was a life-and-death battle as soon as we met. Where was there any time to confirm the identity?"

"And why rob the rare materials of City No. 98?"

Another fifth-rank martial general said: "It's a requisition."

Zhao Xing asked: "Since it's a requisition, where is the Divine Contract, and why beat people?"

"Taking a step back, if he really is Qian Shougang, why didn't he surrender?"

"..."

The two were speechless.

Obviously, they came to ask Zhao Xing, but now it makes them look like the criminals.

The martial general was a bit angry and ashamed: "This is all your one-sided words!"

Zhao Xing said lightly: "Then please ask the lord to summon the soul of Qian Shougang."

"You..."

Now Qian is in the state of ??.

To summon Qian Shougang to ask questions, there is only one possibility: invite a first-rank Rebirth True Lord to summon the soul and turn Qian Shougang into a Yin God.

But Qian Shougang doesn't have a million military merits. He came to the battlefield relatively late, and his military merits are not as good as many seventh-ranks.

If he had a million military merits, he wouldn't have come to rob the Divine Might Army's Earth Fire Lotus.

The rules of the Yin God system are here. Investigating the case cannot let the first-rank Rebirth True Lord summon the soul, otherwise, who can die in this way and achieve a Yin God in the future?

Isn't it a disguised destruction of the Yin God system?

Fan Zhaoli saw that Zhao Xing answered calmly and couldn't help but reveal a smile.

In fact, this matter was Qian Shougang breaking the rules. As long as Zhao Xing insists that it was a mistake, not intentional, the punishment will be minimal.

If it was intentional, it wouldn't work. Qian Shougang's crime didn't deserve death, and it wasn't Zhao Xing's turn to punish him.

It's just that the Prince of Zhao faction didn't expect Zhao Xing to have nine high-level techniques and do things so flawlessly.

City No. 98 has no temple, and in the Southern Wilderness, the Yin God inspection system is not as useful as in the Great Zhou, and even military merits have to be comprehensively determined by multiple parties, not to mention this kind of situation?

So it can only be investigated by the Secretary of the Inspection Department.

After inquiring about the personnel of City No. 98 and looking at Wang Ji's injuries.

The Military Realm Inspection Department soon came up with a preliminary result:

Qian Shougang sought his own death, and requisitioning the Divine Might Army's materials was not done according to the process.

Using the authority of a superior to beat the city defender and forcibly requisitioning the Divine Might Army's precious supplies is equivalent to robbery.

Leading to being mistaken by Zhao Xing, Long Xiao, and others as an enemy army disguised as barbarians, and being killed in Xixian Territory.

After the preliminary investigation results came out, they were submitted to the Nine Heavens Response Mansion, Ten Suns Cave Heaven, Military Realm, Prince of Zhao, Divine Might Army Main Commander, and other parties for verification.

Seven days later, the final investigation results were released: Zhao Xing, Long Xiao, and the Brave Battalion were innocent, and even military merits didn't need to be punished.

Once this result came out, it caused quite a sensation.

Even Zhao Xing himself was a bit surprised:

"Hmm? It turned out to be such a result?

"Innocent and light crimes were within my expectations, but why were even military merits not punished? What exactly happened?"